Only by means of decisions does man enter reality.
Happy, if we can unite the boundaries of the different species of philosophy, by reconciling profound enquiry with clearness, and truth with novelty!
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
All that glisters is not gold.
Thoughts at peace. That is the goal someone who philosophizes longs for.
Form is the substance which rises to the surface.
It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.
A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.
A good moral, my lord: it is not enough to speak, but to speak true.
No man can learn what he has not preparation for learning.
The solution to the problem, which you see in life, lies in living in a way that makes the problems disappear.
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
The greatest people are those who can give hope to others.
Some things are hastening to be, others to have come and gone, and a part of what is coming into being is already extinct.
The ability of calm reflection is the beginning of all wisdom, the source of all goodness !
The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal; but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality is to lead them to servitude or freedom, to knowledge or barbarism, to prosperity or to wretchedness.
Help yourself and heaven will help you.
That is sublime in comparison with which everything else is small.
It requires management to enjoy life.
Good sense and genius beget esteem and regard: Wit and humour excite love and affection.
It is through fraternity that liberty is saved.
The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future.
Man can climb to the highest summits; but he cannot dwell there long.
The first and fundamental resistance is that of the spirit. It means resisting the intimidation of any lie asserted as truth, the contagion of any collective intoxication.
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
If you want to make peace there must be two people, you yourself and the neighbor opposite.
One thought, fills immensity.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him.
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